Paraprofessional educator

shoulders. However, when she decided to learn about the organizational chart of the district, it seems as if she was looking for a secondary plan in case that the suggestion of the superintendent of hiring a qualify substitute to cover for the special educator teacher did not…

The social environment has an impact on goal-oriented motivation. When we are teaching, we have to be positive role modelss for children so as educators we should give self-direction, self-determination, and self regulation. Knowing how the brain function can have a great influence on how teachers address the emotional, social, cognitive and physical learning of students (Jensen, 1998). Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory identifies “interpersonal relations” (1979, p.22) as a key element in the…

My field is education, specifically, birth through kindergarten and elementary education. Education has had a number of issues in the past; some of them still exist today. To narrow my focus, I looked at a number of articles, online magazines, and electronic journals. These included topics such preschool to kindergarten transitions, teacher assistants and driver’s education classes, being a teacher in your mid-career, school shootings, and using technology in the classroom. The vast majorities…

The implementation of Common Core has created a tremendous push to create student-driven classrooms using technology. Blended learning, with its mix of technology and traditional face-to-face instruction, is an approach to accomplish this task. Blended learning combines classroom learning with online learning, in which students can, in part, control the time, pace, and place of their learning. Blended Learning has positive and negative results. Supporters of blended learning programs believe…

Being asked, to sum up, what little I’ve known of life into a question has proven to be much of a task but led to the pressing question of how racial profiling and bullying by my fellow classmates affected the social decisions I’ve made throughout my life. The story all begins with the decision to leave the warm, sunny, culture enriched island of Trinidad being made by my parents in early 2009. By June of the same year, I was in New York City enrolling in elementary school for the coming school…

strategies that will help student build on the skills that have. Bogum Yoom (2007) believes “teachers can act as supports or constraints on ELLs’ active participation, in the mainstream classroom depending on their teaching approaches”. It is my job as an educator to make my ELL students feel confident in their ability to learn. The strategies used will have a direct affect on how welcome my student feel in the learning environment. Teachers who chose topics of interest to ELL students…

to work in life, but the point was doing something I liked not just doing anything. On a Monday morning as the Mrs. Bevel talked about T.A.F.E. I thought to my self what is that. So I decided to ask and she responded “Texas Association of Future Educators” I soon…

Code of Ethics According to the American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ATRA), the code of ethics is used as a guide for promoting and maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior. There are 10 different principles that ARTA follows but there were just a few that really stuck out to me when reading this and learning more about it that I would like to discuss. Principle 2: Non-maleficence is the that every Recreational Therapist has an obligation to use their knowledge, skills,…

Historical Significance Saucier Elementary is a K-6 school with a rich history. The school first opened its doors in 1905 as Saucier High School where both male and female students could earn an education. At that time, the tuition based school included dormitory housing, supervised by the principal and his wife. The school became part of the Harrison County School District in 1957. In the late 1960?s the school reorganized to serve as a first through eighth grade facility. Although…

Current Levels of Educational Performance: On September 22, 2016, I had the pleasure of observing a middle school classroom at The Day School. During my observation, I reviewed an extremely well written IEP for a tenth grade student diagnosed with autism and cerebral palsy. Academically, the student performs below her same age peers and state approved academic standards. She demonstrates delays in the areas of cognition, receptive and expressive language, fine and gross motor skills,…